George Trump

As great a literary imagination as George Orwell had, could he have created a character as redoubtably imaginative as our guy Trump or the political atmospherics Trump inspires with his 'language', of which every morning there is at least one fresh, shining new example?

E.P.A Offers Lifeline to the Dirtiest Coal Plants, a front page headline in today's The New York Times in which it's reported that the Trump Administration is re-writing climate change regulations that will enable some of America's dirtiest coal plants to "be refurbished and keep running for years without adding scrubbers or other modern pollution controls." 

E.P.A. spokesman, Michael Abboud, defended the policy, "saying in a statement it was designed to benefit the environment and intended to further encourage efficiency improvements at existing plants."

From a pure language standpoint, that is, to parse direct clear meanings from Trump & his men and women, is now not as difficult as it once was when the fictions first began, and the brazen contradictory beauty of their utterances, such as the one noted above, may fit into some new political poetic of which even the late George Orwell, as prescient as he was, may have been incapable of deciphering. 

For the sheer unadultuerated perversion of political language--a language inherently perverse, never straightforward since straightforwardness is never politically expedient, except when it is--there's never been anything even remotely like this is in my lifetime! The lies and deceit sometimes take on the luminous quality of poetry, in which the subversions of meaning are so transparent they may be mistaken for art.

I, for one, salute the imaginative wordscape our President George Trump and his merry men and women have created, for it is truly breathtaking, a spectacular human achievement never to be duplicated. 

 Trump Tower Wyoming--Gooseberry Creek, between the towns of Meeteetse and Worland, off Hwy. 431.